From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mike Haertel <mike@ducky.net>
Message-Id: <200302091948.h19Jm7S2012443@ducky.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] what a mess the Unix world has become
In-Reply-To: <200302091005.h19A5d2A018648@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Sun,  9 Feb 2003 11:48:07 -0800
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> I think that one really should be able to do "test -r foo && cat foo"
> without cat failing because of permissions.

This could never be guaranteed to succeed, even with a supposedly
perfect version of "test", because "foo" might get altered between
the "test" and the "cat".